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The Mark Twain Shrine Club |
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Contact Information: |
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Noble Joseph Flowers |
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719 Greensburg Street,
Columbia, KY 42728 |
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270-384-3206 -
Business/Cell |
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270-384-2878 - Home |
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The Mark Twain Shrine Club was founded in January 2000. The
Columbia, Kentucky-based club collects money at roadblocks to help
Kosair Charities help children, as well as through other varieties
of fundraisers and events.
Since the club's
inception, the Mark Twain Shrine Club has donated thousands of
dollars to Kosair Charities. |
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Kosair and Mark Twain
Shrine Club make 11th birthday special for Dalen Robertson |
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Jimmy
Harper, left, is proud to have initiated the gift of
this 1995 Ford Van from Kosair Charities and the Mark
Twain Shrine Club to a deserving young man, Dalen
Robertson, on his 11th birthday. Behind Jimmy is Jim
Fisher, Assistant Rabban of Kosair Charities. To the
right of Dalen are Robert Flowers, Roger Hines, Jim
Cornock and Joseph Flowers. In back are Terry Moore,
James Absher, and Stanley Bain. |
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A few months ago Jimmy
Harper, teacher at the alternative school in Russell
Springs, became aware of a family's special need for
custom transportation.
Jimmy, being the good samaritan he is known to be around
these parts, asked Amanda what he could do to help. She
told him that with her son Dalen’s illness,
transportation was the problem she'd been praying about
for a long time.
Mark Twain Shriners learned
that Kosair had a van available
Jimmy brought that need back to his brothers in the Mark
Twain Shrine Club and it was discovered that Kosair
Charities had a van they were going to give to the
Masonic Homes of Kentucky. We know all of those folks
really well and made our case about the family in
southcentral Kentucky who had a great need for it. "The
Kosair Charities Board of Directors gladly answered our
request," Mr. Flowers said.
Robert Flowers, fellow Charter Member of the Mark Twain
Shrine Club, and communications helper between Mark
Twain and Kosair notes the van is from Kosair Charities
to the Mark Twain Shrine Club to the Robertson family.
And it is even more special because it is being done on
Dalen's birthday. Because of the unique situation here
in Kentucky,
Kosair Charities do more than sponsor Shriners
Hospitals
Kosair Charities not only sponsor Shriners Hospitals but
they fund Norton Kosair Childrens Hospital to the tune
of about four million dollars a year. We have the best
pediatric doctors in the country because of this. It
doesn't matter if a family has insurance or not, the
children are treated because Kosair Charities picks up
the tab.
In addition to that, because they are completely
independent, Kosair has the ability to do things across
the state just like the addition we did on the Hutchison
house. All the funding for the van came from Kosair
Charities down through Mark Twain Shrine Club.
Kosair Charities largest charitable organization in
state
Jim Fisher is the Assistant Rabban who will be the
Potentate of Kosair Shrine in two years, said, "Kosair
Shrine, which controls Kosair Charities, was organized
back about the turn of the century and they are the
largest charitable organization in the state of Kentucky
with a two-hundred-fifty-two million dollar endowment,
allowing us a large working allowance from the interest
alone."
Everyone is asked to give generously on Friday
afternoon, June 30, when the local Mark Twain Shrine
Club will be having its semi-annual Road Block. All
monies collected go to Kosair Charities and come back in
ways just like this to help neighbors in need.
Officers are Jim Flowers President; Jason Corbin, Vice
President: Joseph Flowers, Secretary; and Freddie Rowe,
Treasurer.
95% of Mark Twain membership is from Adair County
The Mark Twain Shrine Club has a 95% Adair County
membership. Other members are from surrounding counties
or come from as far away as Glasgow and Louisville.
The club is a designated branch of the Kosair Temple,
Louisville, KY. The group meets monthly on each first
Tuesday at Edgewood. Chef Robert Flowers always cooks
dinner with assistance from Bobby Dean Loy and Jason
Cox. |
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Photo
and Article - ColumbiaMagazine.com 06-20- 2006-
Columbia, KY - Photo Linda Waggener |
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